Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.

Clostridioides difficile infections occur upon ecological / metabolic disruptions to the normal colonic microbiota, commonly due to broad-spectrum antibiotic use. Metabolism of bile acids through a 7α-dehydroxylation pathway found in select members of the healthy microbiota is regarded to be the pro...

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Autores principales: Andrea Martinez Aguirre, Nazli Yalcinkaya, Qinglong Wu, Alton Swennes, Mary Elizabeth Tessier, Paul Roberts, Fabio Miyajima, Tor Savidge, Joseph A Sorg
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a68d3cc2a7c4485c800df500d3fb295e2021-12-02T20:00:00ZBile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.1553-73661553-737410.1371/journal.ppat.1010015https://doaj.org/article/a68d3cc2a7c4485c800df500d3fb295e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010015https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7366https://doaj.org/toc/1553-7374Clostridioides difficile infections occur upon ecological / metabolic disruptions to the normal colonic microbiota, commonly due to broad-spectrum antibiotic use. Metabolism of bile acids through a 7α-dehydroxylation pathway found in select members of the healthy microbiota is regarded to be the protective mechanism by which C. difficile is excluded. These 7α-dehydroxylated secondary bile acids are highly toxic to C. difficile vegetative growth, and antibiotic treatment abolishes the bacteria that perform this metabolism. However, the data that supports the hypothesis that secondary bile acids protect against C. difficile infection is supported only by in vitro data and correlative studies. Here we show that bacteria that 7α-dehydroxylate primary bile acids protect against C. difficile infection in a bile acid-independent manner. We monoassociated germ-free, wildtype or Cyp8b1-/- (cholic acid-deficient) mutant mice and infected them with C. difficile spores. We show that 7α-dehydroxylation (i.e., secondary bile acid generation) is dispensable for protection against C. difficile infection and provide evidence that Stickland metabolism by these organisms consumes nutrients essential for C. difficile growth. Our findings indicate secondary bile acid production by the microbiome is a useful biomarker for a C. difficile-resistant environment but the microbiome protects against C. difficile infection in bile acid-independent mechanisms.Andrea Martinez AguirreNazli YalcinkayaQinglong WuAlton SwennesMary Elizabeth TessierPaul RobertsFabio MiyajimaTor SavidgeJoseph A SorgPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleImmunologic diseases. AllergyRC581-607Biology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Pathogens, Vol 17, Iss 10, p e1010015 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Immunologic diseases. Allergy
RC581-607
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
spellingShingle Immunologic diseases. Allergy
RC581-607
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
Andrea Martinez Aguirre
Nazli Yalcinkaya
Qinglong Wu
Alton Swennes
Mary Elizabeth Tessier
Paul Roberts
Fabio Miyajima
Tor Savidge
Joseph A Sorg
Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
description Clostridioides difficile infections occur upon ecological / metabolic disruptions to the normal colonic microbiota, commonly due to broad-spectrum antibiotic use. Metabolism of bile acids through a 7α-dehydroxylation pathway found in select members of the healthy microbiota is regarded to be the protective mechanism by which C. difficile is excluded. These 7α-dehydroxylated secondary bile acids are highly toxic to C. difficile vegetative growth, and antibiotic treatment abolishes the bacteria that perform this metabolism. However, the data that supports the hypothesis that secondary bile acids protect against C. difficile infection is supported only by in vitro data and correlative studies. Here we show that bacteria that 7α-dehydroxylate primary bile acids protect against C. difficile infection in a bile acid-independent manner. We monoassociated germ-free, wildtype or Cyp8b1-/- (cholic acid-deficient) mutant mice and infected them with C. difficile spores. We show that 7α-dehydroxylation (i.e., secondary bile acid generation) is dispensable for protection against C. difficile infection and provide evidence that Stickland metabolism by these organisms consumes nutrients essential for C. difficile growth. Our findings indicate secondary bile acid production by the microbiome is a useful biomarker for a C. difficile-resistant environment but the microbiome protects against C. difficile infection in bile acid-independent mechanisms.
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author Andrea Martinez Aguirre
Nazli Yalcinkaya
Qinglong Wu
Alton Swennes
Mary Elizabeth Tessier
Paul Roberts
Fabio Miyajima
Tor Savidge
Joseph A Sorg
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Nazli Yalcinkaya
Qinglong Wu
Alton Swennes
Mary Elizabeth Tessier
Paul Roberts
Fabio Miyajima
Tor Savidge
Joseph A Sorg
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title Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
title_short Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
title_full Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
title_fullStr Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
title_full_unstemmed Bile acid-independent protection against Clostridioides difficile infection.
title_sort bile acid-independent protection against clostridioides difficile infection.
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url https://doaj.org/article/a68d3cc2a7c4485c800df500d3fb295e
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